Web Desk (LTN NEWS): On Wednesday, Defense Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif said that what PTI leader Shahbaz Gill said was unacceptable. He said that the politician’s language was like “crossing every line.”
The arrest happened after the Pakistan Electronic and Media Regulatory Authority sent a show-cause notice for airing controversial comments by Gill, which the authority called “highly hateful and seditious” and “akin to inciting the armed forces to revolt.”
The minister said on the show today that he has never agreed with putting someone in jail without proof. “But Gill broke every rule.”
He said that the Pakistan Army had been criticized before, but that “no one has ever tried to start a mutiny in the Pakistan Army in the last 75 years.”
“No one ever said anything that made the institution’s respect and dignity look bad.”
Asif remembered that the army had done great things and given up a lot over the past few decades. “And comments like the one that happened after the Lasbela incident on social media have never happened before.”
He was talking about the crash of an army helicopter during efforts to help people in Balochistan.
Asif said that the minister’s criticisms of the army in 2006 should be seen in the context of the fact that “a sitting president was sitting in (military uniform).”
“He (Pervaiz Musharraf) was holding rallies, and he was a political rival of a party, so my comments should be seen in that light,” he said.
Asif also said that the former prime minister had a habit of criticizing everyone who spoke out against him. Imran Khan is the head of the PTI.
“His own needs are the most important thing to him. He doesn’t care about the country, “said what the minister said.
Asif said that he would let the court decide whether or not to ban the PTI.
“If the law allows banning any of these parties, the court should decide, but the evidence against foreign funding is clear,” he said, suggesting that all political disagreements should be solved through dialogue, but without any conditions.
The defense minister also denied that Pakistan’s airspace was used for the drone attack on Al-Qaida leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri in Afghanistan. “That is not something the US needs our space for.”
